Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	ounce_n	spirit_n	syrup_n	4,675	5	11.7500	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43173	Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation obtain'd by general conversation and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1675 (1675)	Wing H1272; ESTC R13684	160,760	370

leave to touch a little upon his Wheedles Suppose your self to be troubled with any distemper it matters not which for all is one to him or his like you send to upon his Arrival he feels your Pulse and with a fixt eye on your countenance tells you your spirits are low and therfore it is high time for a Cordial The next Interrogatory he gravely puts to you as When were you at stool Sir If not to day he promises to send you a Laxative-Glister by and by and if you complain you have a Loosness then in stead of one Laxative he will send you two healing Glisters if besides you intimate a pain in your stomach back and sides then responding to each pain you shall have a stomach-Plaister another for the right and left side and another for the back and so you are like to be well patched or clowted every way Now before we proceed let us compute the charges of the first day Here is a Cordial composed by the directions of an old dusty Bill on his File out of two or three mustie Waters especially if it be towards the latter end of the year it be a Citron a Borrage a Bawm water all very full of spirits if River-water may be so accounted To these is to be added an ounce of that miraculous treacle-Treacle-water then to be dissolved an ounce of Confectio Alkermes and an ounce of nauseous Syrup of Clove-gilly-flowers this being well shaken in the Viol you shall spy a great quantity of Gold swimming in leaves up and down for which your Conscience would be burdened should you give him less then five shillings for it from the meanest Tradesman without the least abatement he expects three shillings six pence The Glister shall be prepared out of two or three handfuls of Mallow-leaves and an ounce of common Fennil-seed boil'd in water to a Pint which strained shall be thickned with the common Lenitive-Electuary Rape-Oyl and brown Sugar and seasoned with Salt This shall be conveyed into your Guts by this young Doctors man through an Instrument he commonly carries about him which makes him smell so wholesom for which piece of service if you present your Engineer below half a Crown he will think himself worse dealt with then those who empty the Close-stool-Pan The Master places to account for the Gut-Medicine though it were no more then water and salt and for the use of his man which he calls Porteridge eight groats Item for a Stomachick Hepatick Splenetick and Nephretick Plaister for each half a Crown The next Afternoon or Evening returns the Doctor-Apothecary himself to give you a visit for should he appear in the Morning it would argue he had little to do and finding upon examination you are rather worse than better by reason those Plaisters caused a melting of the gross humours about the bowels and dissolved them into winds and vapours which fuming to the head cause there a great paine with dulness and drowsiness and part of 'em being dispersed through the Guts and Belly discommode you with a Cholick a swelling of the Belly and an universal pain or lassirude in all your Limbs thus you see one day makes work for another However he hath the wit to Wheedle you into an opinion that they are the signs of the operation of Yesterdays means beginning to move and dissolve the humours which successful work is to be promoted by a cordial Apozem the repetition of a Carminitive Glister another cordial to take by Spoonfulls and because your sleep hath been interrupted by the unquietness of swelling humours he will endeavour to procure you for this next night a Truce with your disease by an Hyprotick potion that shall occasion rest Neither will he give you other cause then to imagine him a most careful man and so circumspect that scarce a symptom shall escape his particular regard and therefore to remove your Head-ach by retracting the humours he will order his young Mercury to apply a Vesicatory to the Nape of your Neck and with a warm hand to besmear your belly and all your joynts with a good comfortable Ointment for to appease your paines The Cordial Apozem is a Decoction that shall derive its vertue from two or three unfavoury Roots as many Herbs and Seeds with a little Syrup of Gilly-flowers for three or four times taking which because you shall not undervalue by having it brought to you all in one Glass you shall have it sent in so many Viols and Draughts and for every one of 'em shall be placed three shillings to your account which is five parts more then the whole stands him in for the Cordial potion as much and as much for the Hyprotick the like price for the Carminative Glister and for the Epispatick Plaister a shilling Thus with the increase of your disease you may see the increase of your Bill The third day producing an addition of new symptoms and an augmentation of the old ones the Patient stands in need of new comfort from his Doctor who tells him that Nature begins to work more strong and therefore all things go well but because Nature requires all possible assistance from Cordials and small Evacuations he must expect the same Cordials over again but with the addition of greater Ingredients it may be Magistery of Pearl or Oriental Bezoar in powder the former being ofttimes but Mother of Pearl dissolv'd in distilled Vinegar the latter a Cheat the Armenians put upon the Christians by ramming Pebbles down a Goats throat afterwards killing him and extracting the stones before witness out of his Maw which they sell for those rare Bezoars whereof the quantity of fifteen Grains hath been taken by a Child of a year old that lay ill of the Small Pox without the least effect of Sweat or any expulsion through the Pores And besides the repetition of a Glister and the renewing of your Plaisters for the profit of your Physician you must be perswaded to accept of a comfortable Electuary for the stomach to promote digestion of a Collusion to wash the slime and filth of your Tongue and to secure your Gums from the Scurvey of a Melilot plaister to apply to the blister that was drawn the night before of some spirit of Salt to drop into your beer at meals of three pills of Ruffi to be swallowed down that night and three next morning which possibly may pleasure you with three stools but are to be computed as two Doses each at a shilling the spirit of Salt a Crown the ounce for the Stomach-Electuary as much for the Glister as before for your Cordial in relation to the Pearl and Bezoar their weight in Gold which is two pence a Grain the greatest cheat of all for dressing of your blister a shilling for the plaister as formerly Now if you shall reflect on the Total that shall arise out of this Arithmetical progression of charge of a Fortnights physick modestly computed at fifteen shillings a day